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...really cannot see any other option that can better suit Hong Kong's current circumstances. We are now facing a real danger of our democratic development coming to a halt." DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong Chief Executive, in a televised address urging the city's Legislative Council to pass proposed political reforms. Critics say Tsang's reforms don't go far enough...
...that the transformation of China can be better achieved by economics, not by politics. Large corporations can show the way by providing tangible examples of how the Chinese people can have a better standard of living through their individual efforts and creativity. Political rhetoric and mismanagement are not effective. Tsang Kwok Choong Singapore...
...directly elected Chief Executive is 2007, and that a fully elected legislature must wait till at least 2008. In 2004, however, China's leaders exercised their power to interpret the Basic Law to decree that those dates were no longer acceptable. Now, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, the man in the middle, is trying to bring the two sides together with a limited reform package scheduled for a vote in the Legislative Council on Dec. 21. For the 2007 ballot for a Chief Executive, Tsang, the current frontrunner, proposes doubling the electoral college from...
...things happens: either six of the 25 pro-democracy lawmakers are successfully arm-twisted to switch their stand, thus ensuring at least 40 votes for approval, or Beijing gives in to the demands of the people of Hong Kong and accelerates the roadmap to democracy. Neither will occur. Tsang has warned that, should the package be voted down, constitutional development "would come to a halt." Pass the proposals, he argues, and Hong Kong will at least be a step closer to full democracy...
...believe in the Big Bang. We believe in incremental stages to find a solution." DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, explaining during his North America visit last week that Hong Kong would need time to develop democratic institutions, despite calls for universal suffrage in the territory...